Michael Prodger

Call of the Wild

Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape

By Susan Owens

Benjamin Riley

Don’t Ask to Use the Bathroom

The English Folly: The Edifice Complex

By Gwyn Headley & Wim Meulenkamp

Jonathan Meades

Neolithic Concrete Wonders

Fake Heritage: Why We Rebuild Monuments

By John Darlington

Barnaby Crowcroft

It’s a Tough Neighbourhood

The Origins of the Arab–Iranian Conflict: Nationalism & Sovereignty in the Gulf between the World Wars

By Chelsi Mueller

Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Rivalry That Unravelled the Middle East

By Kim Ghattas

Piers Brendon

Friends with Benefits

The Churchill Complex: The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship

By Ian Buruma

Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump

By Kim Darroch

Christopher Hart

Never Work with Children or Audiences

The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes

By Gyles Brandreth

Patricia Fara

Through the Magnifying Glass

Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

By Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Freya Johnston

We are Family

The Good Sharps: The Brothers and Sisters Who Remade Their World

By Hester Grant

Adrian Weale

Blowin’ in the Wind

War and Peacekeeping: Personal Reflections on Conflict and Lasting Peace

By Martin Bell

Jonathan Rée

The Poetry of Reason

Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die

By Steven Nadler

Kieran Setiya

Meetings with Disaster

If You Should Fail: A Book of Solace

By Joe Moran

Michael White

The Camerons Who Knew Me

Diary of an MP’s Wife: Inside and Outside Power

By Sasha Swire

Michael Taube

All Burke’s Children

Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition

By Edmund Fawcett

Matthew Restall

Apocalypse Then?

Conquistadores: A New History

By Fernando Cervantes

Helen Graham

They Went to Spain

The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War

By Giles Tremlett

Mathew Lyons

Breaking the Spell

The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present

By Chris Gosden

Tom Fort

A Slippery Customer

The Gospel of the Eels: A Father, a Son and the World’s Most Enigmatic Fish

By Patrik Svensson (Translated from Swedish by Agnes Broomé)

Keith Miller

Zen Koans & Blood Sausages

Dirt: Adventures in French Cooking

By Bill Buford

Peter Conrad

Thinking Inside the Box

Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

By Matt Wolf (dir)

Anthony Cummins

Between Friends

What Are You Going Through

By Sigrid Nunez

Elleke Boehmer

What Tambu Did Next

This Mournable Body

By Tsitsi Dangarembga

Ian Critchley

Three Get into Trouble

Trio

By William Boyd

Daniel Baksi

The Emperor’s New Clothes

The Shadow King

By Maaza Mengiste

Sam Sheldon

One Day in Paris

Jacob’s Advice

By Jude Cook

Rebecca Cook

Village Whispers

The First Woman

By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi

Ethan Croft

Unhappy Together

The End of the Day

By Bill Clegg

Josie Mitchell

Missing, Presumed Dead

Death in Her Hands

By Ottessa Moshfegh

Jay Gilbert

The Ghost & the Machine

Reality and Other Stories

By John Lanchester

Fiona McLees

Kafka’s Trail